Thread by @jp262

#SOTU 🧵
1/ This was an amazing speech, period. Many will speak to the iconic moments, such as when Biden turned the tables on the GOP and made them commit to protecting SS and Medicare, but my focus here will be on the many things Dems stood for while McCarthy remained seated…

2/ I’m sure I didn’t catch every time McCarthy declined to stand, but the list was long, so this should more than capture at least the general flavor:

- Job Creation
- Preserving democracy
- Bipartisan bills
- Building a strong middle class
- 50-year low unemployment

3/ What Dems stand for while McCarthy sits:

- Creating American Jobs
- Americans starting new businesses
- Bipartisan chips and science act
- Supply chains beginning in America
- Great-paying manufacturing jobs in Ohio (you’re welcome Gym)
- Bipartisan infrastructure

4/ What Dems stand for while McCarthy sits:

- GOP celebrating Infrastructure programs they voted against. “I’ll see you at the groundbreaking” (ok, I get him not standing for that)
- Replacing lead water pipes
- All federal infrastructure projects made in America (he stood late)

5/ What Dems stand for while McCarthy sits:

- Pharma making record profits on insulin and ending that
- Capped cost of insulin at $35 for seniors on Medicare
- Let’s cap insulin price for everybody
- Medicare can finally negotiate drug prices
- Try to repeal and I will veto

6/ What Dems stand for while McCarthy sits:

- Expand Medicaid
- Climate change action
- 500K electric car charging stations built by unions
- Wealthy & big corporations should pay their fair share
- Tax system is not fair
- Nobody making less than $400K will pay 1 more cent

7/ What Dems stand for while McCarthy sits:

- No billionaire should pay lower tax rate than schoolteacher or firefighter
- Big oil record profits - quadruple the tax on stock buybacks
- Cracking down on tax cheats
- 25% of national debt added by last admin

8/ What Dems stand for while McCarthy sits:

- We all agree then - SS and Medicare are off the table?
- Let’s stand up for seniors (they all stood - HA!😆) “Apparently it’s not going to be a problem.”
- #DarkBrandon

9/ What Dems stand for while McCarthy sits:

- Eliminate Junk fees - airlines, banks, credit cards
- Companies taking us for suckers.
- Pay people what they’re worth
- Guarantee living wage
- Child care
- Restore Child tax credit to cut child poverty

10/ What Dems stand for while McCarthy sits:

- Any nation that outeducates is is going to outcompete us.
- Universal prechool
- Pay public school teachers more
- Offer every American a path to a good career even if they don’t go to college
- Recovered billions in fraud

11/ What Dems stand for while McCarthy sits:

- Just as police have a right to go home alive, so do those they police
- Do something about gun violence
- Ban assault weapons
- Immigration - let’s work together
- If not my comprehensive plan, at least fund border security

12/ What Dems stand for while McCarthy sits:

- Codify Roe v Wade
- Equality Act
- Ukraine - will we stand for Democracy (Kevin did stand for the Ambassador)
- China - threaten our sovereignty, we will act
⁃ Never a good bet to bet against America (delayed Kevin stand)

13/ What Dems stand for while McCarthy sits:

- No veteran should be homeless (so do something about it, or is that socialism)
- Protect Democracy, and extremism must have no safe harbor
- Because of the Soul of this nation, the State of the Union is strong (despite the GOP)! END